MANAGING NURSES' TALENTS IN VUCA AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid and unexpected increases in the number of COVID-19 cases, uncertainty about the spread and impact of the pandemic, complex processes affecting the whole world, circumstances that are difficult to determine have led to VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environments. Although its predicted that we will encounter VUCA environments more frequently in the future, the COVID-19 pandemic which has caused the greatest global health problem reveals the impact of the VUCA environment even more obviously. Since many individuals were hospitalized globally at the same time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, need for intensive care services increased. Thus, health care services were arranged to meet the pandemic-related needs. The health service delivery, redesigned in line with the pandemic, has increased the need for talented nurses who have high levels of knowledge and skills, and can adapt quickly to changing environments so that they can care for emergency/critical/intensive care patients in every environment. Practices like trying to train nurses lacking enough pandemic-related experience, and canceling nurses' rights to take leave and resign indicated that talented nurse workforce is not enough to respond to the pandemic effectively. Therefore, nurse workforce should be prepared for future pandemics, and talented nurses should be trained. The aim in this review is to enable managers to better understand how talent management can be achieved, and how the nurse workforce can be used to deal with VUCA environments such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

• VUCA
• COVID-19
• nurse
• pandemic
• talent management

VUCA VE COVID-19 PANDEMİSİNDE HEMŞİRELERİN YETENEKLERİNİ YÖNETMEK

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemisinin ortaya çıkmasıyla birlikte vaka sayısındaki hızlı ve beklenmedik artışlar, pandeminin
yayılımının ve etkisinin belirsizliği, tüm dünyayı etkileyen karmaşık süreçler, belirlenmesi güç olay ve durumlar,
VUCA ile karakterize edilen değişken (Volatile), belirsiz (Uncertain), karmaşık (Complex) ve muğlak (Ambiquous)
ortamları oluşturmaktadır. Gelecekte, VUCA ortamlarıyla daha sık karşılaşılacağı öngörülmekle birlikte, dünyanın

karşı karşıya kaldığı en büyük küresel sağlık sorununa yol açan ve beklenmedik bir zamanda ortaya çıkan COVID-
19 pandemisi VUCA ortamının etkisini daha da açık ortaya koymaktadır. COVID-19 pandemisi, dünyada

genelinde, çok sayıda bireyin aynı anda hastaneye yatışını gerektirmiş, yoğun bakım hizmetlerine gereksinim
artmış, bu doğrultuda sağlık bakım hizmetleri pandeminin gereksinimlerine yanıt verecek şekilde düzenlenmesini
gerektirmiştir. Pandemiye göre yeniden şekillenen sağlık hizmet sunumu, her ortamda acil/kritik/yoğun bakım
hastalarına bakım verebilecek, bilgi ve becerisi yüksek, değişen ortamlara hızla uyum sağlayabilecek nitelikte
yetenekli hemşireye duyulan ihtiyacı artırmıştır. Pandemi süresince dünya genelinde yeterli deneyimi olmayan
hemşirelerin çok kısa sürede eğitilmeye çalışılması ve ülkemizde ise hemşirelerin izin ve istifa etme haklarının iptal
edilmesi gibi uygulamalar pandemiye etkili yanıt verebilecek nicelik ve nitelikte hemşire işgücünün hazır
olmadığını göstermiştir. Bu doğrultuda, hemşire işgücünün gelecekte yaşanabilecek pandemilere karşı hazırlıklı
olması ve yetenekli hemşirelerin yetiştirilmesi gerektiği belirtilmektedir. Bu derlemede, yetenek yönetiminin,
hemşire işgücünün COVID-19 pandemisi gibi VUCA ortamlarıyla baş etmede bir yöntem olarak nasıl
kullanılabileceğinin yöneticiler tarafından daha iyi anlaşılması amaçlanmaktadır.
Anahtar Kelimeler: VUCA, COVID-19, hemşire, pandemi, yetenek yönetimi

Keywords

• VUCA
• COVID-19
• hemşire
• pandemi
• yetenek yönetimi

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